glog 2025 europe glog

Hello all.
As every year I grow some variety of plants and since i just started new season with this cotton sprout I had an idea to run a grow log. Hopefully I will find time to document my progress here.
This year I have couple of jalapeno plants in mind, large orange thai i've got form this forums couple of years ago and maybe cayenne and some suave/dulce habanero type chilis (yet to be obtained).
Beside peppers i'm looking to grow some classic tomatoes (costoluto/red pear), bottle gourd, cucmbers grafted on pumpkin and variety of pumpkin/squash and mentioned cotton (pots, indors). Last frost date is May 15th to give you some idea on a climate.
Cheers.

 

[SatanicFlatIron]

Make sure the soil is not too compact and wet, because it suffocates the roots (and therefore stops growth). Sometimes unfortunately it's hard to recover.
What kind of light are you giving the plants? What temperatures do you have? Window light may not be sufficient, especially for some species (e.g. C. chinense)

 

[serrano]

Window light it is. Always worked so far. Room temp there is albout 22C and way warmer when sun showes up. Also I am not here on weekends so need to soak the soil for them to survive more than 2 days without watering.

 

[CaneDog]

I'd say that the small sprouts dropping leaves is almost certainly a result of cold temps or sitting in too damp conditions. Your temperatures now sound fine, but perhaps they were a little cooler starting out. I suspect they're getting too much water now, as I'd expect them to need little in their current condition and easily survive a weekend without special watering. If they got off to a slow start, it's easy for the problem to compound with the roots not developing, the sprouts taking up water more slowly, and running into issues with the medium being too wet and perhaps compacting enough the cause further issues, like root rot. I feel confident the situation wasn't caused by a lack of nutrients, as sprouts will easily surpass that size without any nutrients at all (such as with inert peat and coir starter mixes).

When I have situations like this I typically evaluate whether I think the sprout can survive a transplant and, if so, I transplant them into new, similar containers with fresh potting soil and focus on keeping them warm and the soil only moist (and as loose/fluffy as possible) until they recover. I actually just did this with a few Biker Billy Jalapenos I started around the turn of the year. My grow area was doing fine for the older plants, but the new BB sprouts looked sad and weren't progressing properly. I repotted them, kept them minimally moist, and increased the heat in the grow area and now they're doing great. A couple had almost no roots at all and I wasn't sure whether they had a chance, but they came though.

Hope yours come through for you!

 

[serrano]

Thing are astarting to look better thanks to your advices. Soil looks wet - i just gave them to drink after a weekend. You still can see a big difference between particular plants. Still 6 weeks to go - they should all be ready (good enough).

Also going through my seed stash I've found new varieties I overlooked before like:

Chocolate Apocalypse
Bhut Jolokai something
something reaper something

Those sounds superhot.

 

[CaneDog]

That's awesome that they're doing better!